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What data support the use of continuing GnRH therapy "backbone" in metastatic castration resistant prostate cancer (mCRPC) receiving additional therapies?

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Medical Oncology · Duke University School of Medicine

The short answer is that ALL phase 3 trials of life-prolonging therapies now approved in mCRPC required ongoing ADT (medical or surgical) and there is not a single positive life-prolonging phase 3 trial that did not do this. Until then our strongest evidence is to follow how these trials were conduc...

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Medical Oncology · University of Minnesota–Masonic Cancer Center

The best paper that has tackled this question recently is this one (it's a good read):

Sena et al., PMID 37244750

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